Standard 3. List reasons for European exploration and settlement in Alabama and the impact of Europeans on trade, health, land expansion, and tribal reorganization of Native American populations in Alabama.

• Locating European settlements in early Alabama
• Explaining reasons for conflicts between Europeans and Native Americans in Alabama from 1519 to 1840
Examples: differing beliefs regarding land ownership, religious differences, cultural differences, broken treaties
• Identifying main causes, key people, and historical documents of the American Revolution and the new nation
Examples: main causes—taxation, lack of representation, distrust of centralized power;
key people—George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin;
historical documents—Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States
• Naming social, political, and economic outcomes of the Creek Civil War and the Creek War in Alabama
Examples: social—adoption of European culture by Native Americans, opening of Alabama land for settlement;
political—breaking of power of Native Americans, labeling of Andrew Jackson as a hero and propelling him toward presidency;
economic—acquisition of tribal land in Alabama by the United States
• Identifying the impact of the Trail of Tears on Alabama’s Native Americans